We finally finished our film, Jouska. Jouska is a Japanese word which means having a hypothetical conversation in your head that you compulsively play out in your head. For example (SPOILERS!!) confronting your bullies which is what I do at the end of the film. We first started with puzzles. Ms. St.Clair suggested that maybe after completing a puzzle the scene could change where I'm stuck again with my bullies. After some time we changed the puzzle pieces to a mirror as a motif. The film is actually pretty hard to understand if you don't know what the mirror does. When I'm looking at the mirror, I'm traveling to an era when a particular film movement started. The first scene is from today. As I'm climbing the stairs and checking my mirror, I'm time-travelling to the Golden Age era. In this scene, we also included some shots which we were inspired by the party scene on Breakfast At Tiffany's. The next scene is inspired by Surrealism. This scene may look silly to most people, as a film student it doesn't really make sense to me too because I just don't understand Surrealism. The next scene is from Film Noir and it is my favorite. Besides the effects and the talking, I think we captured Film Noir movement cinematically. I really like the contrast when I'm sitting down, resting against the wall. I love the transition between this scene and the last one. I think the falling is on point. At the end of the last scene, we didn't plan to put slow-motion but I believe it got better with the slow-motion. We could have finished with me walking until I'm not in the frame however we think it's kind of better to put black screen when credits are rolling because it is more matched with the music.
In this film, all four of us basically did every job. The only thing that is done individually was creating the music which what I had done. The challenge of it was to get it matched with the scene and the era. For instance I couldn't put electronic music to Film Noir, electronic music and Film Noir have no relations. I think the hardest thing we did in this film was deciding if we have to shoot again or not because in Film Noir, some scenes weren't exactly in the same frame so when edited together, it would be obvious that some parts of the footage got cut off. Our mistake was not really paying attention where we stood in the scene so it created problems with the camera too. When we were still filming I thought that our biggest problem was planning and shooting the scenes separately. However the mirror and the effects (dissolves and such) helped us connecting the scenes.
What I learned from producing this film, is that you have to plan each scene like which angles or shots you're going to use, how will you connect the scenes together so they will flow when edited. Other than that, it is really fun to shoot a film.
In this film, all four of us basically did every job. The only thing that is done individually was creating the music which what I had done. The challenge of it was to get it matched with the scene and the era. For instance I couldn't put electronic music to Film Noir, electronic music and Film Noir have no relations. I think the hardest thing we did in this film was deciding if we have to shoot again or not because in Film Noir, some scenes weren't exactly in the same frame so when edited together, it would be obvious that some parts of the footage got cut off. Our mistake was not really paying attention where we stood in the scene so it created problems with the camera too. When we were still filming I thought that our biggest problem was planning and shooting the scenes separately. However the mirror and the effects (dissolves and such) helped us connecting the scenes.
What I learned from producing this film, is that you have to plan each scene like which angles or shots you're going to use, how will you connect the scenes together so they will flow when edited. Other than that, it is really fun to shoot a film.